Two of the five employees fired this week over alleged insurance improprieties were among TCHC’s seven highest-paid people in 2012.

Four of the five Toronto Community Housing Corp. employees fired this week over alleged insurance improprieties were senior managers who earned more than $100,000 last year.

Two of them were among TCHC’s seven highest-paid people in 2012. Another was in charge of implementing the city auditor’s recommendations for how to tighten the public housing company’s financial controls.

And all five had worked for Housing Services Inc. (HSI), the defunct construction and maintenance subsidiary at the centre of the scandal.

The TCHC has refused to release the names of the five employees, but the Star obtained them. All of the names vanished from the TCHC’s online staff directory on Thursday morning.

Lou Canton, a longtime employee who was executive director of operations delivery, received $149,549 in salary and benefits in 2012, good for sixth at the TCHC. Roman Mesec, who was interim vice-president for facilities management, made $148,596, good for seventh.

The other three employees are Siew Wong ($105,233), a financial controller who had been responsible for overseeing the implementation of the audit recommendations; Jimmy Demelo ($111,517), director of facilities operations; and Omar Elwedini, manager of mechanical engineering, who made less than $100,000.

Chief executive Gene Jones terminated the employees after receiving the results of an investigation conducted by a forensic accounting firm on Monday. He said he turned the findings over to the police on Thursday.

Two sources familiar with the investigation said that only some of the employees were fired for cause; some do not appear to have been implicated in the possible wrongdoing. Jones would not say Thursday whether the TCHC expects to pay any severance.

Two sources said documents may have been falsified to make it seem as if costs HSI actually incurred at a project in Ottawa were related to work done at 200 Wellesley St. E. — for which TCHC submitted a significant insurance claim to AIG. Any fraud could jeopardize the entire claim.

HSI crews did repairs at 200 Wellesley in the immediate aftermath of a major fire in September 2010. Canton was a senior HSI leader at the site.

“Earlier this year, it was brought to my attention that certain anomalies had been found in a property insurance claim submitted by HSI with respect to the fire. This is not in keeping with the values of our company,” Jones said at a news conference at TCHC headquarters.

He would not say anything about the size of the claim or whether he believes there is a chance AIG will refuse to pay.

None of the five employees could be reached for comment Thursday; people who answered the phone at Canton’s home and Mesec’s home hung up on a reporter. Canton refused to comment when contacted in mid-September, before the investigation was complete.

Jones said the investigation uncovered “evidence of wrongdoing,” but he refused to provide any specifics. He promised to provide a summary of the findings to the public at a later date.

He did take pains to note that, contrary to Mayor Rob Ford’s comments to reporters on Wednesday, there is no evidence of any “kickbacks.” And he said he doesn’t know if the possible wrongdoing involves “millions” of dollars, as Ford asserted, or thousands.